Injured Skier Sues Oregon Resort Over ‘Drunken’ Snowboarder

If a restaurant can be held liable for a drunk driver causing bodily injury to others, then a resort owner can be held liable for a drunk snowboarder causing bodily injury to others. Ditto for intoxicated individuals operating a jet ski. We need to be consistent!

Restaurants should not be liable for any individual’s behavior. The individual should be responsible for his/her own behavior. The only reason this ridiculous practice of holding a business liable for an individual’s behavior exists is that the business has “deep pockets” that can be picked clean by the trial bar. The money is all it’s about.

Maybe if we started actually holding people accountable for THEIR OWN behavior instead of letting them blame others (oh, they shouldn’t have served me. boo hoo.) we wouldn’t have so many bogus lawsuits and the scumbag lawyers could go flip burgers or do whatever else they’re qualified to do.

That’s worse than holding the police responsible for not catching a drunk driver. At least the p0lice have training in recognizing the signs of a drunk driver but they still can’t be held responsble for not seeing him.